It’s great – Superman ARX LEE (LI CHAOXIONG)

Bilibi Series

Bilibi one of Li Chaoxiong's graphic novels, which was created in the early 2000s. "Bilibi", contemporary and urban hero, brave and generous, smiling and clumsy who traveled the world and the stars in a carefree way.

EXHIBITIONS

- Superhero/Collective exhibition, Ruyi Gallery, Guangzhou, China 2006

- Looking for Li Chaoxiong, Guangdong School of Fine Arts, Canton, China 2006

- From the Center/Collective exhibition, Espace 789, Beijing, China 2007

- Personal exhibition of Li Chaoxiong, Star Gallery, Beijing, China 2008

- Buda Pest Illustration Show, MUMA, Guangzhou, China 2009

- Happy Together/Collective exhibition, Galerie Seguela, Canton, China 2009

- Buda Pest, Solo exhibition, Galerie Loft, Paris, France 2010

- Buda Pest, Wilber Gallery & MUMA, Guangzhou, China 2011

- BRAFA, Brussels, Belgium, Infinitely Close to the Front: Contemporary art exhibition on "Death", Collective exhibition, Art Museum, Canton, China 2011

- Lights up the Hope/Solo exhibition, Red Brick Museum, Beijing, China 2012

- Lights up the Hope/Solo exhibition, Galerie Seguela, Guangzhou, China 2012

- CIGE 2012, China World Trade Center, Beijing, China 2012

- Wisdom of Cartoon - Personal Exhibition, Wilber Gallery, Canton, China 2012

PUBLICATIONS

- City of Love - volume 1, "Happiness at That Time", (comic strip), City of Love - volume 2, "Xiao Xue", (comic strip) 2005

- Buda Pest (illustrated story), Wilber creations, Ed. Fr. Loft editions, 2010

- Catalog of oil paintings from the Buda Pest series, 2012

- Dreamer Is Beautiful, 2013

ARTIST

Li Chaoxiong, alias ARX LEE, is a Chinese artist who was born in 1978 in Zhongshan, Canton. In the end of 1990s, he begun to present his early works in group exhibitions in Canton, Beijing and Japan (5th International Exhibition of the Japan Art Academy in 1997). Hence, he started studying at Guangzhou Fine Art School and graduated in 2002. He is as well the author of two poetic and introspective graphic novels: Bilibi in early 2000s and Buda-Pest in 2010, the last one published in three languages and the theme of an exhibition at the Galerie Loft, Paris.

Since his childhood, the artist is immersed in the world of superheroes, cartoons and illustration. Developing his style in different artistic disciplines, such as painting, illustration, design, sculpture and photography, Li has gradually found his own language and mastered the codes of literary narration and of plastic and digital composition. Undoubtedly his unique painting style and figurative language are representative of what China has best to offer among the young generation.

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